Buch: Filmton mit dem Tonbandgerät
Dieses kleine Büchlein von 1981 ist mittlerweile kaum noch zu finden, und wird ob seiner Irrelevanz in der heutigen Medienlandschaft mit Sicherheit nicht erneut aufgelegt werden. Es als Abandonware betrachtend…
Category Historic
Vintage Agfacolor Umkehr Ultra T (1960) developed to color
Since 2018, after buying a roll of each Agfachrome 50S and 50L, I found out that there were various predecessors before E-6 development, and I couldn't send my films in…
Super 8: “AGFA – A color picture evolves”.
...let's continue with part 2 of these unknown films that Agfa-Gevaert must have sent to dealers back in the late 70s, or at least planned to do so. This flick…
AGFA – The Hobby Lab
A Super 8 promotional film from Agfa-Gevaert, ca. 1979 This wonderful promotional film for dealers was found by film friend Peter Willems at the film fair in Deidesheim last year,…
Unopened Eastman Transparent film, expired 1903, exposed in 2021
When I wrote here in 2018 about my experiments with Eastman Color Negative 7254 from 1972, I never dreamed what much older types of film I would find, still unexposed.…
Cameras of Dreams: A Book about Prototypes
Jürgen Lossau, author of the highly-saught standard books “Film Projectors” and “Film Cameras 1+2” cannot help it: In a market climate in which the print media is chronically suffering, and…
Elmo Album – the luxury “click & whir”. A repair report
Die "Elmo Album" ist eine recht seltene Super 8 Kamera — und das ist schade, denn sie hat einige wirkliche Besonderheiten. Das besonderste (und zugleich heute irrelevanteste) ist wohl, dass…
Simplified Color Processing Forms
In 1978, so more than 40 years ago, the photochemistry legend Patrick D. Dignan published a highly interesting script with the title "How to Compound ... Simplified Color Processing Formulas."…
DigIt: The archive of everyday analogue life
Digit is a WDR project in which new photos and films from everyday life of the past are added to a database every day. Digit is designed to prevent these…
SIlent Movie Concert in a church with analogue 35mm film projection
No, it was not a loveless DVD or Blu-ray played from the laptop (preferably with a projected disc menu and several trial-and-error attempts in front of a gathered audience, as…